BallykilcavanFarm

13th generation family farm, since 1639. Producing malting barley, gluten-free oats and great beer. Using close-to-nature management on our native woodlands.

[BallykilcavanFarm @BKCFarm]

The time pressure of looking after a farm, a brewery, a wife, three kids and two twitter accounts has finally caught up with me, so from now on, I'll only be posting on @Ballykilcavan. There'll be some beer stuff there, but also bits of farming from time to time. David.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

If you're interested in quality Irish food, drink and the people who produce it, there's a new podcast from @SaltEarthEire called Salt of the Earth. We're featured in episode 2, and you can find the link here: https://t.co/171JwE6ea2

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

We're hosting a walk on the farm on January 12th as part of Operation Transformation. There's a 3km and 5km option, and both go through our 19th century underpass, up the Oak Avenue and into our native woodlands. Start is at 11am - directions at https://t.co/3KpHok0yIX

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

If you've had enough Christmas TV, we have a new video on our Facebook page, along with a chance to win two tickets to our beer tasting event at @TwoCooksSallins and two mixed cases of our beers. Video is at https://t.co/tZRBiaUpxg

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Bidding finished. First two kegs sold to Rafal Wolny and @BarRuaDublin. Total of €630 going to @FocusIreland.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Final call for bids for the first ever keg produced in our new brewery. Currently at €330. All proceeds to @FocusIreland. Bidding closes at 5pm today.

[BallykilcavanFarm @BKCFarm]

@CarlowTours @WaterfordWhisky Hi Bianka. It's the same farm you visited back in the summer. David.

[Waterford Distillery @WaterfordWhisky]

Winter time @BKCFarm. In next year's barley field, David Walsh-Kemmis has planted cover crops to improve the soil structure (by having roots break up the soil), improve drainage & hold onto nutrients. The western side of this field is sheltered by Natural Heritage Area woodland.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Thank you very much to @ITbeerista for the lovely write-up in today's @IrishTimes. Just in time for our first brew on the farm next week. https://t.co/llBprlgrxJ

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

It's #ScienceWeek, and we'll be down in @TeagascCrops Oakpark in Carlow tomorrow, talking about growing barley and making beer from it. You can also hear @leepowerryan talking about @WalshWhiskey and @durrowmills on milling with sprouted grains.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

We're launching our 2018 Fresh Hopped beer in Egan's Off-licence in Portlaoise tomorrow evening. All the hops and all the barley grown on our farm, all within 400m of where the brewery is being installed. Only 1500 bottles available.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Lovely video here from @WaterfordWhisky featuring one of our barley fields. Great drone footage as well.

[BallykilcavanFarm @BKCFarm]

@WaterfordWhisky Great. Delighted to be working with Grace again. Pretty sure that's her in one of our fields.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Exactly a week to go until we launch the 2018 vintage of our Fresh Hopped pale ale in @egansofflicence in Portlaoise. All the barley and all the hops grown on our farm @bkcfarm. Call in to be one of the first to try it and compare it to last year's version.

[Waterford Distillery @WaterfordWhisky]

Might have been foggy this morning in Waterford, but it’s a fine afternoon with grower David Walsh-Kemmis at @BKCFarm.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Always a pleasure to show off the farm, walled garden and brewery to groups of people. Yesterday we had a group of American students here from the CIS programme doing the tour.

[Waterford Distillery @WaterfordWhisky]

Some of our earliest maturing single farm spirits, distilled back in February 2016. Coming along nicely...

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

Only five days to go until these Cascade hops get picked by our crack team of hop pickers. We'll be brewing our fresh hopped pale ale with them on Monday.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

If you have 90 seconds to spare, could you please fill in our 2018 customer survey at https://t.co/mPwnFgahkr? We'd be very grateful and we'll put you in a draw for one of two cases of beer and two t-shirts.

[Ballykilcavan @Ballykilcavan]

We're running our hop picking day again on Sunday 7th October. If you'd like to come and pick hops for a couple of hours, followed by a bbq, beers and a brewery tour, please add your name to the list at https://t.co/pZ0eGOhfVB. We'll draw 25 names out of the hat next week.